[Closed] What's your favourite fruit?

Mango.

There is nothing on planet earth as beautiful as a good peach.

Can you think of anything other than a sunset that shares such a sublime colour?

Mmmm. Peaches.

An orange. It was designed to be shared.

Pineapple. Scaly and weird on the outside, tasty on the inside.

Apples. Fermented.

hhmm - tricky one. I really like most fruits.
But I am quite specific. IF I'm eating an apple it must be crisp. I hate a soft floury apple. Equally bananas must be bordering on overripe - I hate a green, hard banana.

I deeply dislike most kinds of melon though for some reason. But ice cold water melon is okay.

Purple.

SaxonRider - Member
There is nothing on planet earth as beautiful as a good peach.

Can you think of anything other than a sunset that shares such a sublime colour?

Mmmm. Peaches.

I don't like fruit, but Peaches and Apricots are the only ones I eat.

Grapes. Juiced...

that hath been cooled a long age in the deep delved earth,
tasting of flora and of the country-green,
dance and provencal song and sunburnt mirth.
o for a beaker off the warm South,
full of the true and blushful Hippocrene
with beaded bubbles winking at the brim
and a purple stained mouth.

Can't believe I remember Keats 20 years after being told to memorise it.

Seriously though, ripe mangoes are incredible. Really perfumy and almost sickly-sweet.

Tomatoes.

fruit pastels

or an apple but a nice anc cold one, I also think apples taste better directly after being run under a tap so there is a tiny bit of water on the skin.

Kiwi. Tangy and awesome.

Oranges, but they're not the only fruit.

Oh and cider.

A strawberry, on top of a bit of cake.

I like Kiwis too. I eat the skin too as it provides a nice slightly bitter contrast to the sweetness of the fruit. I might be alone in this habit I suspect.

Surprised there's been no mention of Neil yet?

wild strawberries - tiny little explosions of taste
physalids - they're awesome,

SaxonRider - Member
There is nothing on planet earth as beautiful as a good peach.

Nectarine! Like a peach but less fluffy with a sharper taste and massively more betterer!!

Orange here by a mile, they do their best not to be eaten as the skin is so hard to peel but sliced up they are just marvelous

Victoria plums.

I'm surprised no one has pointed out a banana isn't a fruit. This place is really going downhill.

Too many to choose from but I do love strawberries and raspberries, have to be when in season though.

cranberries & raspberries

Too many from the far east coz they all taste very nice.

But a quick consideration ...

Unlike Cavendish bananas - some of our local bananas is full of seeds.
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Pitaya - aka Dragon fruit
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Durian - King of fruits
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Persimmon I love em

Blackberries
Clementines
Russet apples

Me! 😀

I'm a big fan of grapes, little bundles of flavor in a snacks sized skin. Apples too, albeit crunchy, sweet ones, are also damn fine. Banana's I see as purely functional, I eat them instead of energy bars but I can't say I particularly enjoy them.

Do you really like durian chewkw? I've never got around to eating it (10 years in S.E. Asia).

In reverse order of awesomeness:

3. Mango
2. Blackberries
1. Raspberries

Chirimoya is quite cool. Mangos and nectarines too.

Cherries

Pineapples too, but the ones eaten fresh in South America have way more flavour than those shipped to Europe

Arctic Cloudberries (although that was more of a favourite jam flavour - not had real ones for years)

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cloudberries? a new one on me. They look well tasty.
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Rubus chamaemorus is a rhizomatous herb native to alpine, arctic tundra and boreal forest, producing amber-colored edible fruit similar to the raspberry or blackberry.

Where does one purchase fruit native to the arctic tundra?

makecoldplayhistory - Member
Do you really like durian chewkw? I've never got around to eating it (10 years in S.E. Asia).

Yes, I love them and so are most people in SE Asia except my sister. As a kid she thought we were consuming cat shite because of the smell. 😀

I can eat more than 10 easy when I was a kid but nowadays I can only eat about 5 to 6 as my body might not be able to handle all the stored energy. They are very high in energy btw. Once consume you may not feel hungry for a long time. Traditionally native people eat at meal time.

If you eat Durian you should also eat Purple mangosteen (Queen of fruits) to counter the effect of the energy as I was told.

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Cloudberries? a new one on me

Where does one purchase fruit native to the arctic tundra?

Love a juicy Cherry Tomato, but could gorge on Blueberries all day long.

Processed cocoa bean (a fruit) for me 😉

Ah. Where are you from Chewk?

I also know you shouldn't drink and eat durian too. Something to do with it warming your insides, or your brain exploding or something like that.

Drac - "I'm surprised no one has pointed out a banana isn't a fruit."

makecoldplayhistory - Member

Ah. Where are you from Chewk?

I also know you shouldn't drink and eat durian too. Something to do with it warming your insides, or your brain exploding or something like that.

My home town is in the 'Land below the wind' (google this term).

Yes, you should Not eat and drink alcohol with durian or deep fried food coz the energy build up will be too strong for the body to handle. I kid you not.

If you have high blood pressure you should avoid eating Durian altogether or if you cannot resist than just eat 2 - 3 seeds. More you might go into coma ... 😆

Julian Clary

Yes, you should Not eat and drink alcohol with durian or deep fried food coz the energy build up will be too strong for the body to handle

Sounds like you have been listening to a Chinese Doctor Chewkw, my wife comes out with stuff like that all the time?

Lychee. Like little tasty eyeballs.

Where does one purchase fruit native to the arctic tundra?

Purchase? You can find them in the Highlands and the Cheviots but very hard to spot.

stewartc - Member

Yes, you should Not eat and drink alcohol with durian or deep fried food coz the energy build up will be too strong for the body to handle

Sounds like you have been listening to a Chinese Doctor Chewkw, my wife comes out with stuff like that all the time?

She is right. 😀

You can try but just may sure you have all the remedies ready just in case.

IMO some body type might be able to handle better than other but if you have high blood pressure then that combination might cause you severe harm. I wouldn't recommend experiment with that combination.

😀

I want to try this mysterious super energy fruit. In fact I'd love to try lots of different exotic fruits, line them all up and have a sample of each. Just looking online and it looks like all the exotic fruit providers just sell wholesale.

Drac - "I'm surprised no one has pointed out a banana isn't a fruit."

Get. In. The. Sea.

A nice pair.

jekkyl - Member

I want to try this mysterious super energy fruit. In fact I'd love to try lots of different exotic fruits, line them all up and have a sample of each. Just looking online and it looks like all the exotic fruit providers just sell wholesale.

You will be full of energy to do ... ahem ... sexy time with your partner I kid you not.

passion for me.. durian is indeed the king of fruits but I'd stick with my pomelo
One whiff of the durian by your other half and I guarantee you wont be having any sexy time whether you have energy or not 🙂

My all time favourite are home grown sweet juicy strawberries (not the elsanta variety, which supermarkets insist on selling to the public).

Or a mango,juicy peach and nectarines chopped up in a bowl. Omg starting to drool.

I like all fruit, especially if I've picked it myself, but I will have failed in life if I never get to go somewhere that grows Durian so that I can eat it fresh.

One day...

Haven't read all of the above but has anyone said 'forbidden' yet?

If not, why not?

Made me chuckle, although not really chuckling, more of a I'm a clever ****er for coming up with that...

Can't beat a properly ripe pear. Unfortunately there is usually about 5 microseconds between them being like bullets and turning to mush.

Passion fruit. Delicious.

Juicy firm succulent melons, not to big and not to small anymore than a handful is a waste.

Blackberry.
Crisp, cold, green apple.
Cherry.

wild strawberries - tiny little explosions of taste

Damn right! My garden is overrun with the buggers. No commercial strawberries come anywhere the taste.

Or mulberries,

yum!

Recently our taste in fruit has been dictated by my wife's athletic achievements. A couple of weeks ago se came second in a local trail running race and won 10kg of oranges and a big tin of olive oil and last week won her category in a Duathlon , the prize for which was a box of apples. The daughter of one of our friends won her class in the trail race and got the biggest tub of Nutella I've ever seen. We live in Cataluña by the way.

Tomato.

On the durian, my uncle claims he used to keep durian biscuits in a sealed pack in his desk. If anyone brought in fish and chips for lunch and stank the place out he would threaten them with opening the packet unless they popped back out to get him some. Whether this is true is questionable but having smelled durian cake I could see it working.

Last time i ate durian next day body felt incredibly hot and uncomfortable, Would second the advise and avoid alcohol and to eat mangosteen along with it,in the past its been fine eating them together,and mangosteen itself is seriously nice. Btw durian gives a bit of a stoned or drunk feeling . Local chinese supermarket sells them late summer for £20 each ish
Got to be cherries and ripe honey mango personaly though.

Where does one purchase fruit native to the arctic tundra?

Mango, we lived under a massive tree at one time and would gorge ourselves on ripe fruit. However I got quite addicted to the Bengali green unripe mango with salt and chilli. My mouth is watering thinking about it. Fresh papaya also.
Here my favourite is a cox straight off the tree.

Bird's eye chilis 😈

Can't beat a nice juicy pear

Preferably a Comice or Williams

You can buy cloudberry jam in IKEA.

Bird's eye chilis

A perfectly ripe mango, preferably served in a Bhang Lassi on Palolem beach as Goan trance wafts in one ear then out the other, then back round again…and again….and again…. as it takes full effect 😀

IKEA Hallon & Blabar (sorry, can't do the accents) jam is awesome. Raspberry & Blueberry in English

We used to have pomelo, papaya, mango, Kabosu, jackfruit (the seed can be roasted/boiled and eat), wild durian (small with extra long torn), star fruit, mango (several types) and some wild bananas at my grandma house ... I mean in the garden or nearby bush.

Wild durians look like this ...

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Also unique to Borneo I used to eat a lot of this ... Tarap Fruit.

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Not unique, but native chewk.

We often stop (in season) on a bike ride to eat tarap fruit.

Has anyone said soursop yet?

makecoldplayhistory - Member
Not unique, but native chewk.
We often stop (in season) on a bike ride to eat tarap fruit.

sbob - Member
Has anyone said soursop yet?

Hmm - with so many people liking Durian, we should organise a forum mountain bike trip to one of the following areas/seasons:
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